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    Zev threaded posts

    Conceptually, they seem like a great idea. In practice one USPSA friend just broke a post on his Zev X5 slide, and another broke two posts on a Zev 09. Trashes the slide.

    Others have experience with them?
    Likes pretty much everything in every caliber.

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    This guy had broken posts too.



    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C93A64VVJY0

    It's disappointing to me, because I've got two sludes with those kind of posts, machined by Battlewerx. Battlewerx has recently abandoned the threaded posts, I believe, and gone to a conventional RMR cut.

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    I've heard you can mill a new larger screw hole but obviously you loose the stabilization of the post and it requires someone who can actually do it... But it would save the slide.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark D View Post
    This guy had broken posts too.



    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=C93A64VVJY0

    It's disappointing to me, because I've got two sludes with those kind of posts, machined by Battlewerx. Battlewerx has recently abandoned the threaded posts, I believe, and gone to a conventional RMR cut.
    My two recent Battlewerx RMRcc cuts (as recently as last week) still have the posts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GJM View Post
    Conceptually, they seem like a great idea. In practice one USPSA friend just broke a post on his Zev X5 slide, and another broke two posts on a Zev 09. Trashes the slide.

    Others have experience with them?
    E6000 on the slide would have prevented that. Distributes the load.

    Even E6000 on the outsides of the threaded posts would add margin.

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    All mine are good thus far.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCN View Post
    E6000 on the slide would have prevented that. Distributes the load.

    Even E6000 on the outsides of the threaded posts would add margin.
    Would this be a good idea when mounting a plate to a slide? I can see why you wouldn’t want to glue down the optic itself, but the plate is fairly permanent…

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    Quote Originally Posted by JCN View Post
    E6000 on the slide would have prevented that. Distributes the load.

    Even E6000 on the outsides of the threaded posts would add margin.
    I don’t think I’d want to use E6000 between optic and anything else.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sero Sed Serio View Post
    Would this be a good idea when mounting a plate to a slide? I can see why you wouldn’t want to glue down the optic itself, but the plate is fairly permanent…
    Quote Originally Posted by HeavyDuty View Post
    I don’t think I’d want to use E6000 between optic and anything else.
    I routinely use it for plate to slide and use a little on optic to plate.

    It comes off pretty easily. Like rubber cement. It says “permanent” but on metal it’s easy to remove by rubbing with a finger.

    Obviously that only applies to sealed bottom optics. No go on something like an RMR.

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